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Feb 24, 2025 | 
foroyaa.net | Louise Jobe |Mustapha Jallow |Sulayman Bah
By Louise Jobe & Mustapha JallowTensions flared along the Gambian-Senegalese border recently as Gambian youths confront Senegalese soldiers over the transportation of goods into Casamance, the southern region of Senegal. The confrontation, which took place near the village of Tranquil stemmed from long standing frustrations among local transporters, who accused the Senegalese military of heavy-handed enforcement of the law at the border.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
foroyaa.net | Louise Jobe |Sulayman Bah
By Louise Jobe Farmers in the villages of Bondali, Bwaim, Sibanor, Bintang, and Ndemban in the West Coast Region (WCR) said they have started receiving cash payments for their groundnuts from Qmoney cash agents at Seccos since Saturday, January 18, 2025, for the first time since the groundnut trade season began. Farmers made this disclosure to Foroyaa on Monday, January 20, 2025, during interviews in their villages.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
foroyaa.net | Louise Jobe |Sulayman Bah
By Louise JobeMagistrates’ Courts in the Gambia have not been sitting this week due to security concerns. The Inspector General of Police decided to withdraw their protection officers otherwise known as orderlies. Judicial sources have informed Foroyaa that magistrates are not sitting because the security personnel who guard them have all been withdrawn by the police command.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
foroyaa.net | Louise Jobe |Sulayman Bah
By Louise Jobe/Madi S Njie The Regional Office of the Gambia Organization for the Visually Impaired (GOVI) in the West Coast Region, on Wednesday, 4 December 2024, celebrated the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, in Brikama.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
foroyaa.net | Louise Jobe |Sulayman Bah
By Louise Jobe According to the facebook page of the Gambia Armed Forces, The Gambia Navy patrol team Wednesday night, 20th November 2024, intercepted a suspected migrant boat in the River Gambia. The Navy’s High Speed Boat nicknamed “SEADOG” tracked and intercepted a local wooden boat suspected of carrying migrants while on its routine night security patrol in The Gambia territorial waters.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
foroyaa.net | Louise Jobe |Sulayman Bah
By Louise Jobe Information from the Gambia Police Force (GPF) indicates that agents of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the GPF have arrested the alleged murderer of a twenty-year-old male at the Banjul Ferry Terminal Police Station, on Tuesday, 19 November 2024.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
foroyaa.net | Louise Jobe |Sulayman Bah
By Louise JobeThe Gambia Police Force (GPF) have announced that they have responded to a tragic drowning incident at the New Wharf, Banjul. which occurred in the early hours of Saturday, 16 November 2024 between 12 am and 12:30 am. The body was later recovered on the same day. Preliminary investigations reveal that Essa Colley, a 25-year-old compliance officer with Global Tracking and Maritime Solutions (GTMS), fell into the sea when he attempted to urinate.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
foroyaa.net | Louise Jobe |Sulayman Bah
By Louise JobeOn Tuesday, November 12, Inspector General of Police Seedy Mukhtar Touray welcomed the British Peace Support Team (BPST) Africa to the Police Headquarters in Banjul. The visit, coordinated by the Commissioner of International Affairs, Famara Jobarteh, marked an important step in strengthening cooperation between the two institutions.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
foroyaa.net | Louise Jobe |Sulayman Bah
By Louise Jobe The Drug Law Enforcement Agency, The Gambia signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Gambia Transport Service Company Limited (GTSC) at the agency’s headquarters in Pipeline on Monday, 4th November 2024. The MOU will help the two parties to collaborate on initiatives aimed at preventing and combating illicit drug trafficking and related matters.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Louise Jobe
A delegation of elders residing in Njayen Sanjal has informed Foroyaa that the government has imposed an alkalo on them contrary to the decision of the villagers. Section 59 of the Constitution gives the Minister of Lands, Regional Government and Religious Affairs, power to appoint an alkalo upon consulting the regional governor and district chief. The same law provides that the Minister shall take into consideration traditional lines.
